After my family was briefly targeted by an attorney many years ago (case eventually dismissed), I make it a habit to look up the attorney...
http://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/appellate-division-second-department/2006/2006-00654.html
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/george-cotz-921701.html

Sometimes this helps to put 2 and 2 together...

"Forgiveness is just the willingness to loosen one’s grip on the grudge, and see what happens."

Andrew is there anything you haven't done,been there ,etc ,etc,you are certainly the most annoying individual,what does "now it all make sense" mean? why not just ride your bike around town and try not to be all things to all people,Im sure in England you would have been a great success but not here.

Andy, George Cotz is also the attorney for the Ramapaugh Lenapi Indian Nation what is your point about his clients?

One "Wonders About this Attorneys" Motives...

I Lived in Mahwah Many Years ago, and I do Miss the "OLD Days" when Mahwah had a "FEW Decent Lawyers" who Did there work!

Wished that this "Great New Breed Mayor: Mr.Lofat" a Successful 4 years and MORE!!

I See Many Decent CHANGES to the town, I ONLY HOPE HE can KILL the DAMN Mall Project! That would be a Fantastic Legacy!!

He Needs to "Prioritize" the Important things: Get the following areas:Retail Areas FILLED: Franklin TPK, Route 17:Too Many Car Dealerships!,& Island Road Area&US 202 area,
PLus the Condo Area too!

Other wise:Leave Mahwah a "Non Paramus"!!

And make sure the Mayor is not permitted to vote on the zoning variance application of the gentleman trying to develop the old U-Save gas station lot (and the two lots south of it). Considering our mayor took in $21K of campaign contributions from the applicant >>> Wouldn't that be some sort of a conflict ? And don't we have enough gas stations?

So now the DPW worker is defaming the police, town and bagel shop. Classy guy! He needs to move on.

(tagging just to get emails for now) Carry on...

Hank, why do you have to get my people (Ramapough Indians) involved in this children's spat between the Mayor and the DPW worker? We have nothing to do with it so why should anyone care that Cotz is our lawyer. Please leave my people out of Andrew's dumb conversation. I would also like to know what he mean by "now it all makes sense". I'm not getting what one case has to do with the other. Hank and Andy, do something resourceful with your life instead of getting into other people's business, look inside yourself and I am sure you will find many shortcomings, we all have them so do be so quick to criticize others.

Admit it Hank, you are either a DPW Worker, firefighter or drinking buddy of Marc. This guy is the biggest clown in Mahwah and all you do is come on here and defend his childish actions. His own prosecuting attorney (as cited by Andy) had to apologize for even being a party to this "suit".

Enough! There are much more important matters than Mayor Laforet and Marc Bracciodieta....

That's not the point Emil
If the actions of the mayor of Mahwah can bring a lawsuit to the town then the mayor has to be held to a higher standard.
He has to use good judgement to protect the town from being exposed to a lawsuit
as an armchair quarterback I believe the mayor get's 100% of the blame for allowing himself to be set up for a lawsuit to begin with
These two guys don't like each other (putting it lightly) hard as it seems it is up to the mayor to either leave the deli or not confront the other person
It's a case where even if the mayor proves to be right, he's still wrong

the bottom line is marc is a good guy and stands up for his rights and mr cotz is a great lawyer. Andy and Hank its 2013 get a life.

And make sure Mr. Mayor stays out of that gas station zoning variance vote ... he'll drown in that one considering the LOOT he took from the applicant. Beehive Court and anyone close to Rt 17 are ready for the fight.

you can tuna piano, but you can't tune-a-fish

Why are any of you surprised by any lawyer's past actions? Lawyers by nature are vultures. Mr Cotz is but one lawyer for the Ramapough. And as Carol said, "One case has nothing to do with the other". For the sake of the taxpayers, both men need to sit down, talk it out and move on.

Carol Degroat, Well, Well, How is the Ramapough Tribe doing? ( If this is Ramapoughs's Secretary) Don't trown Stones if you live in a Glass house."Your People" ?, Where we your people when you trash talked Ramapoughs that live on the Mountain, Don't think so! The point of PATCH is to have an open dialouge about MAHWAHS issues, and I must say their are many including the State of affairs of The Ramapough Indian Tribe. In Native Culture The Circle is very significant because it implys everything is Connected, I believe this applys to Mahwah and our issues.Marc is doing what many individuals won't or Can't because they may be afraid to, and that is stand up to Authorities when they are WRONG! The Mayor should not follow around Individual Citizens, and photograph them, Ask yourself if B.E was robbeed at gunpoint, would Investigators have access to the tape.. Also question why in the world would any Mayor elbow a citizen ? If this was any of us, reguardless of our opinin of Marc or Mr. Laforet we would want and expect to have access to the Video tape that would cooborate the story. What happened if Marc got hurt and Called EMS and the incident was on record? Public Opinion would be different." It must of Happened EMS showed up" This is a another Black Eye On Mahwah, however it is important to stand up for what you feel is Right and Just no matter who it is, including Elected Officials.Ramapough has other Lawyers too.. Judith Sullivan, and Steve Dennison Smith, Who cares!

Time to come off your horse and look at the facts!
1. Marc has a track record of filing complaints against authoritys in multiple states.
2. Marc took a political side agains the Mayor in the election in favor of his boss and is sore his boss got crushed.
3. Marc is afraid to have his job outsourced , so by suing the town he feels he gets job security since he feels its tougher for them to let someone go that is sueing the town because if they do cut his postion he can then sue and say it was because they don't like me.
4. His own family has filed complaints agains him, what does that say?
5. He was reprimanded by his own boss and the town council ( 7-0 vote) this year for cursing at the Chief of police.
I do agree with you on the one point you made though, it's time people stood up for the RIGHT things, not work the system at tax payers expense. Marc has some issues and working for the town may not be the best place for him to work since one of his next outburst might be to a citizen of Mahwah. Maybe we the citizens of Mahwah should put a rat on his from lawn and demand the town fire him.

Why have a survaillance camera in your store if you cant come up with the code to retreive the tape. I am sure if the store got robbed a copy of the tape would be available. Seems a little fishy that since the mayor was involved they cant get the tape. T he mayor should have thicker skin and not chase after someone who yells things out his car window. The last time i checked this is America freedom of speech is not a crime.I am sure the mayor has been called worse and didnt react,he just doesnt like Marc, thats the bottom line.

That's right blame the store owner now! Guess you all forgot that the store had workers and people on line and none of them came up and said they saw anything? I get bumped into about 10 time in Shoprite every week with those oversized carts and crazy people shopping, Marc hopfully doesn't shop there, he would have no time to work he would be in court weekly! Just Saying.

Hey' David L, Sorry Don't own a Horse! . You are surmising at Marc's intent, which you are wrong,yes Marc is worried about job security of many DPW workers as their friend and Steward. The incident at Mahwah PD also could of been cooborated wih a Video tape that was not produced because of "National Security" reason (Ask Mr. Campion) At the end of the day we all have our opinions , is this incident a personal vendetta that has spilled over into public scrutiny because the parties are, the Mayor and a Public Employee , H,ell yeah! My whole point is reguardless of our personal opinions of Marc and Bill, The Tape should of been used as evidence, The Mayor should not have be at the Bagel Express last Wednesday behind the Counter, while Investigators were trying to get the tape again!, and No Mayor should follow around a Citizen taking photos. As for Abie he may have a Horse! Bought with someon elses Money of Course!

Maybe he can call ABC News again in order to retrieve "The Lost Bagel Tapes".

this is all pretty wacky. how on earth can this joker still be employed by our town? even debs would be rolling in his grave over the sheer idiocy of that.

Does anyone realize that Marc was not on town time the day he was bumped into by Mr. Laforet and does anyone care that Mr. Laforets attorney is a good friend of the court and does anyone care that the county prosecuter was not interested in this matter,sure sounds like a fair trial to me,yes im being sarcastic Andrew and did Mr. Curry identify Marc in person or did he just do what his boss(Mr. Lafoet) of 15 years told him to do.